Singapore Monitor, 22 February 1984

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1 4 Singapore Monitor
  • 12 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR M.C. (P) No. 13/5/83 Wednesday, February 22, 1984 30cents
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  • 477 1  -  Communications Ministry studying move following suggestion that hotel taxis are 'reserved' for guests By YEOW MEI SIN HOTEL taxi fleets may be replaced by public taxi stands outside hotels which would serve both hotel guests and the public. This possibility is being considered
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  • 82 1 THE managing director of Tat Lee Finance is currently under investigation by the Commercial Crimes Division. This was confirmed by the Acting Head of the Commercial Crimes Division, Supt Abu Bakar Moosa. At least two other institutions were investigated in the past. One,
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      316 2  -  BEDOK NORTH RESIDENTS FEAR RAILINGS MAY GIVE WAY DUE TO LANDSLIDE AFTER RAIN By OEI SIN GIOK HOUSING Board residents at Bedok North in Blocks 41 to 44 fear that a landslide may cause railings around the blocks to give way, endangering their lives. Continuous rain during
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    • 185 2 Lianhe Zaobao RESETTLED shopkeepers at the new Beauty World Centre say business seems to be as stagnant as it was when they first moved in some three months ago. The 167 shops are pinning their hopes on a turn for the
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    • 146 2 THE Singapore Chinese Physicians' Training College is extending its course from four to five years because of the need to expose the students to more research and studies integrating Chinese medicine with modern scientific and technical knowledge. Chinese physicians have seen increased patronage of
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    • 178 2 THE Rehabilitative Services Branch of the Ministry of Social Affairs needs more Volunteer Probation Officers. There are currently 317 volunteers with the branch. They assist full-time probation officers in supervising offenders placed on probation. More than half of them have had five years'
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    • 288 3 Burglars toast themselves before stealing $20,000 worth of liquor Lianhe Wanbao THE BURGLARS must have been toasting themselves even before completing the job of stealing more than 10 cartons of hard drinks from a liquor warehouse in Avenue 3, Aljunied over the weekend. Several empty bottles
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    • 323 3  -  By K K FONG ANTI-VICE, labour and immigration officers are ready to stage their grand finale in the operation to clean up the so-called "new wave" barber shops. After a series of combined raids last year and the laying down of strict conditions
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    • Article, Illustration
      952 4 AN INTERVIEW WITH THE DYNAMIC CO-FOUNDER WHO IS THE DRIVING FORCE BEHIND SONY'S SUCCESS STORY By TYE KIM KHIAT EVEN PLAYBOY Magazine was interested in him. And there was a fervent chase over several Weeks before the magazine caught up with Mr Akio Morita, 63, chairman and
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    • 380 4  -  Mr Ong on school priority admission scheme By FOO CHOY PENG THE GOVERNMENT will continue to pursue unpopular policies which will benefit Singapore in the long run even if this means risking a few votes, Mr Ong Teng Cheong said yesterday. The National
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    • 253 4 AROUND SINGAPORE SAF OFFICER cadet, Lee Marn Wye, 19, was found dead at Sungei Poyan, off Kampong Berih yesterday. A search for Officer Cadet Lee began last Friday, when he did not show up by 1.30 pm from a mapreading exercise
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    • 342 5  -  RESTAURANTS DISPLAYING DUPLICATE COPIES OF SLAUGHTERING CERT WITHOUT APPROVAL By JALIL MISWARDI THE Singapore Muslim Religious Council (Muis) is working with an unnamed Ministry in taking action against restaurants that misuse its Halal certificates. The action comes in the wake of a comSlaint by a Muslim slaughterer,
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    • 333 5  -  Story by SIT YIN FONG THE LID was yesterday lifted from the tight-ly-kept secret of the identity of the adoptive parents of four-month old "tussle-baby" Chen Weiling. A police statement made public in the 26th Magistrate's Court named the adoptive mother as childless
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    • 213 6 AP NEW DELHI, Wed MUSLIM rebels in Afghanistan took advantage of bad weather conditions to attack government positions last week, prompting authorities to retaliate with heavy bombing, a Western diplomat here said yesterday. The exchange of attacks were reported in Kabul, Afghanistan's capital, and the
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    • 270 6 JUDGE SAYS SHE'S ENTITLED TO A THIRD OF SANJAY'S ESTAT AP NEW DELHI, Wednesday A NEW DELHI judge yesterday ruled that Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has been "a magnanimous grandmother" and accused her estranged daugh-ter-in-law of turning an inheritance dispute into a political battle
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    • 130 6 All domestic and international flights suspended PIA sacks pilots for 'spreading rumours' Reuter KARACHI, Wed PAKISTAN'S state-run airline has sacked five senior pilots for "spreading unfounded rumours and creating alarm and despondency." A statement issued by Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) said the pilots were "holding clandestine
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    • 299 6 UPI NEW DELHI, Wednesday EXTREMISTS armed with submachine guns killed nine people and injured more than a dozen others yesterday in three villages near the Sikh holy city of Amritsar in Punjab state, officials said. Four extremists rode motorcycles into two busy village
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  • world
    • 428 7 SAYS JAPANESE WITNESS TO THE SHOOTING UPI TOKYO, Wednesday A JAPANESE journalist told the Aquino inquiry panel that Rolando Galman was not holding a gun moments after the shooting of the opposition leader. "It seemed to me that Galman did not hold a
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    • 162 7 Reuter RABAT, Wednesday NEARLY 400 people, many of them schoolchildren, have been jailed for up to five years and fined in connection with last month's riots in Morocco, a newspaper linked to the ruling coalition said today. The paper, Al-Ittihad Al-Ishtiraki, said the
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    • 129 7 USA Today DENTISTS may some day fill cavities with cloned human tooth enamel, researchers say. It's possible that "artificial human dental enamel will literally be grown in tooth cavities," and it will be more resistant to tooth decay than "natural" enamel, says
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    • 356 8 Army spokesman said clearing out can take two weeks AP BEIRUT, Wednesday THE US marines officially began their pullout from Beirut Airport to American warships offshore yesterday as Israeli jets bombed and strafed the Syrian-controlled mountains east of the Lebanese capital. The action coincided with local radio
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    • 65 8 AP BAGHDAD, Wednesday IRAQ charged yesterday that Iran is planning a major offensive against them and called for an international effort to "deter the Iranian regime." A spokesman armed forces said: "All available information indicates the Iranian regime is preparing for
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    • 254 8 Reuter GENEVA, Wednesday THE SOVIET Union, in its first major arms control statement under the leadership of Konstantin Chernenko, vesterday made what Western experts termed a significant concession in negotiations to outlaw chemical weapons. Viktor Issraelyan, Soviet chief negotiator at the 40-nation Geneva
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    • 178 8 UPI BRUSSELS, Wednesday i NEW Soviet SS-20 missile bases are being erected within striking distance of Japan, China and South Korea as a "counter-measure" to US missile deployment in Europe, a senior US official says. In Moscow, the Com-mander-in-Chief
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    • World Briefs
      • 82 8 UPI JAKARTA, Wednesday: Prince Norodom Sihanouk told President Suharto yesterday that his Cambodian coalition government had reached a "turning point" in its fight to oust Vietnamese forces occupying Cambodia. "I told President Suharto that our guerillas have launched attacks deep into Cambodia,
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      • 55 8 AP BEIJING: China said yesterday that it has strengthened patrols along the Vietnam border and accused Vietnamese troops of killing or wounding three people ana wrecking "many vehicles." A story in the Liberation Army daily said Chinese soldiers fired back on one Vietnamese raiding
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      • 63 8 UPI QEORQETOWN: Venezuela's Ambassador to Guyana was shot and seriously injured by a gunman in an attack that also wounded his wife, police said yesterday. Sources in the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry in Caracas said an unidentified gunman shot Sadio Garavini in the head
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      • 83 8 Reuter WASHINGTON: The Supreme Court yesterday refused to release the National Enquirer from paying US$2OO,OOO (*****,000) in damages to entertainer Carol Burnett for suggesting that she was intoxicated in a fashionable Washington restaurant. The weekly tabloid said in 1976 that the
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      • 56 8 UPI MANAGUA: The ruling leftist Sandinista Front, in a surprise move yesterday, announced that it will hold elections on Nov 4 instead of next year and will lower the voting age to 16. The voting will be the first election since the Sandinistas took
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      • 71 8 UPI TORONTO: Francoise Gilot, a companion of Pablo Picasso from 1944 to 1954, has sold two Canadians the movie option based on her memoirs about life with the late Spanish painter. Miss Gilot acceptedjormallv the offer this week of Tom Patterson, founder of Ontario's
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    • 308 9 Democrat contenders proceed to traditional testing ground of American presidential contenders DES MOINES (Iowa), Wednesday BARELY pausing to celebrate their one-two finish in the lowa caucuses their first major test by voters Democratic presidential contenders, Mr Walter Mondale and Mr Gary Hart, turned their attention yesterday
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    • 40 9 Mondale ahead in the pack of contenders AP SPRINGFIELD (Illinois): Mr Walter Mondale, Democratic Presidential candidate, gives a firm "thumbs-up" sign as he talks to support' ers after a Springfield rally at the State Capitol. AP
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    • 107 9 Mondale the punters' choice UPI LONDON, Wednesday BRITAIN'S bookmakers said on Tuesday that Mr Walter Mondale's win in the lowa caucus has improved his chances of winning the Democratic presidential nomination and defeating President Reagan in November. Following Mr Mondale's overwhelming victory in lowa on Monday, a spokeswoman for Ladbrooke's
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  • money
    • 214 11 f —1 WS4LLSTREET Reuter THE stock market's failure to withstand a drop through a key technical support level caused more nervous investors to bail out and sent f trices sharply lower on ight trading volume yesterday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which finished Friday a
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    • 736 11 PERIOD OF AGREEMENT AND GAP IN RATES FOR SPOT DEALS ARE STILL SORE POINTS MONEY brokers and bankers met within the last week in another attempt to break the deadlock in their negotiations but apparently to no avail. If there is no further progress this
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    • 112 11 i-nrr CHASE Manhattan ail Bank will impose a lIIIH charge on inactive Him til savings accounts I" with small balances in the hope of encouraging its customers to save more. From next month, a minimum balance of $500 must be maintained by its savings
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    • 90 11 SHARE OF THE DAY .TONGTongkah kah Haru bour has Harbour asked for suspension of trading of its shares following erratic trading since the Lunar New Year. The counter was last traded yesterday at $7.10, a 30 cent gain on the day. The price represents a 1983-84
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    • 142 11 [jOLLAR AND (yOLD| AP THE US dollar fluctuated in Europe yesterday but finished mostly firm amidst speculation that Western oil supplies could be interrupted if the Iran-Iraq war got worse. Gold price rose in Zurich by US$5 an ounce. Foreign exchange dealers said the
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    • 654 12  -  By RODNEY HOBSON BANKS in Singapore and resources in Australia. These are the likely initial targets if investors in the two countries step up buying on each others stock exchanges, the chairman of the Sydney Stock Exchange suggests. He is Jim Bain, senior
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    • 160 12 AUSTRALIA, like the United States, Canada and the UK, is moving towards deregulation of its stock exchanges. The Australian securities industry had not changed for about 100 years until a Trade Practices Commission inquiry decided that certain rules should not be allowed. The one that directly affects
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    • 402 12 •COMPANY REPORTS- FIRST Allied Corp proposed a four-for-one rights issue of Msl each at par ana share split of Msl shares to 50 cent shares, which will change the issued share capital from Ms 3 12 million to M 515.6 million comprising 31.2
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    • 283 12 ALTHOUGH world oil supplies remain plentiful, the slow economic recovery in most major countries other than America will hold down demand, according to Financial Digest published in New York by the Manufacturers Hanover Trust. "The desire for oil has been
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    • 251 12 LAT-WP TORONTO, Wednesday THERE is no fooling around with the Canadian tax man. Eleven-year-old James Snell found that out recently when revenue collectors seized his Cs37 savings account "for failure to pay his income taxes. Although Federal tax officials later blamed the problem on
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    • 260 12  -  By NEIL HARRIS in London BRITAIN'S Standard Telephone and Cables (STC) group, which last week won a £30 million contract in the Sin-gapore-France Submarine Cable System, announced improved pre-tax profits of £92.2 million. But STC's chairman, Sri Kenneth Corfield, said Singapore and
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    • 94 11 Take a ■pfJLtaeafe... j J Thursday Fashion Special j! 111 Feb 23 5.30 pm I 1 At Mezzanine Lounge iY. A Watch the current fashion trends jc as you indulge in afternoon tea and cakes or unwind over I j cocktails. Then catch up on some I u wl reading
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    • 2756 13  -  BY KISHORE MAHBUBANI (Reprinted with permission from "Foreign Affairs" magazine. Views expressed are the author s) IN THE five years since Vietnam invaded Cambodia to depose Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot and install its own client regime, the situation in Cambodia
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    • 45 14 LEFT: Prince Norodom Sihanouk president of the coalition government. RIGHT: Mr Khieu Samphan, the coalition's vice president. LEFT: Mr Son Sann, prime minister of the coalition and leader of the KPNLF. RIGHT: Mr Heng Samrin, installed by the Vietnamese.
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    • 94 13 Dragon Showcase in association with Edsam presents together 'live "at the Neptune Theatre Sunday 4th March 1984 Matinee show: 4.30pm $75 nett Dinner show: 7.30pm $165 nett Non-diners: 9.00pm $95 nett Tickets available: Mandarin Singapore Restaurants Show Reservations Counter Tel: *****1 I ext 721 Down Town Disco, Tel: *****72 Artistes
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    • 80 14 A— If Szechuan cuisine at the Meisan Restaurant comes to you in a delicious,sumptuous range. F.very dish is an exquisite creation and authentic to the last ingredient. Dine on such servings of genuine Szechuan specialities as Campnor Smoked Duck, Drunken Chicken, tender Meisan Pork Ribs and even live seafood courses.
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    • 17 14 TAMnDDAtAi. The nightmare scenario of the Khmer Rouge I UMUnnUW! sweeping back into power Can it happen?
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  • opinion/letters
    • 485 15 IvUsiiioklißßßW GIVEN the sophistication of the financial system in Singapore, one might be forgiven if it had been presumed that Singaporeans would prefer to draw their wages the "cashless" way. After all, what is so unusual about being Kid by cheques or through a nk account
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    • REPLIES
      • 264 15  -  YAP YEOW WOON Public Relations Officer Republic of Singapore Police I REFER to the letter headlined "How to Jet rid of those illegally-parked vehicles" rom "Kam" (SM, Feb 7). We wish to thank "Kam" for his interest and suggestions on how to eliminate
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      • 198 15  -  TAN HENG HUAY Executive Asst Secretary (Public Relations) Housing Development Board PLEASE refer to the letter headlined "Long delay in HDB notifying people of parking offences" (SM, Jan 20). The writer received a summons recently for failing to furnish particulars requested in a
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      • 54 15  -  JOSEPHINE ONG (Miss) Public Relations Officer SBS I REFER to the letter by "Female Undergrads" headlined "Bus driver ordered us to get down (SM, Feb 6). I would like to thank your writer for bringing the incident to our attention. The driver has been reprimanded and his
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      • 157 15  -  YAP YEOW WOON Public Relations Officer Republic of Singapore Police I REFER to the letter headlined "It's a nightmare driving through these two lanes" from "Desperate Resident" (SM, Feb 6). We are aware of the problem caused by the indiscriminate
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous

  • 471 16 Appreciation o£ opera Understanding Opera: Kiri Te Kanawa (Debut) (Ch 12, 8 pm) IN this four-part series on the appreciation of opera, Stephen Oliver talks about how composers throughout the centuries create music out of everyday speech and relationships. Designed by Allen Jones, the programme includes extracts from
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    482 16  -  TV Scene By PHILIP CHEAH ONE of the more down-market items reserved for Channel 12 is jazz music. Jazz, down-market? That's an illusion, folks, unless your idea of jazz is George Benson, George Duke, Shakatak of the like. Jazz, like rock and classical music, is a cultivated
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 798 16 ■naTTV IT jim Film Guide on Page 20 IHA\ 4 3.00 Opening and Programme Highlighta followed by 9Hn9Ni Hotel (C) M Cartoon Exercise The World: Our Zoos We zoos Los AngeBasle nra Romper Room ~V^ Marc suspected During his election Sinclair declares Westmere are vicious J| to old people. He
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    • 223 16 12.00 PM Programme Summary Love's Big Disco Sound Hits 6.00 News--12.05 Musical Notebook: Sketches from in-Brief 6.05 Easy Listening (cont'd) Spain: 1. Enrique Granados: Libro de 7.00 News, and Weather Forecast Horas, Thomas Rajna (piano) 2. Enrique V.15 World of Songs 7.30 Background Granados: Goyescas Book 1, Thomas to Music
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    • 208 16 1 ■'lIMII i i I I i i l 12.00 PM Newsdesk 12.30 Waveguide 12.40 Book Choice 12.45 Financial News 12.55 Reflections 1.00 World News 1.09 Twenty-Four Hours: News Summary 1.30 What's New 1.45 The World Today 2.00 Newsdesk 2.30 Talking about Music 3.00 World News 3.09 Twenty-Four Hours: News
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  • leisure
    • Article, Illustration
      1313 17  -  IS IT REAL OR IS IT JUST A MEMORY OF SOMETHING ELSE? By ROBERT HILBURN LAT-WP I LOVED the Beatles. The Fab Four had the coolest personalities, wrote the best songs and helped guide us through one of the most exciting ana turbulent decades we're ever likely to
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    • 1016 18  -  Mastering rockabilly By PHILIP CHEAH "Rockabilly Is the purest of all rock 'n'roll genres. That is because It never went anywhere.... For rockabilly started and, in a sense, ended with Elvis Presley." rock critic Peter Guralnick "I KNEW this guy a long time back who was
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    • 729 19 STARSTRUCK] OLD AND NEW FACES DAVID LEE may be a new name on the Chinese music scene but in the United States, he is an established musician. Recently, he was nominated for a Grammy award in the best newcomer category. David, 26, is a Taiwanese but
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    • 776 21  -  SUPERB FOOD, WINE AND SERVICE By CH'NG POH TIONG THE golden rule concerning good dining is simple. Always leave a restaurant when you really want to stay a bit longer because this, more than anything else, will ensure that you will go back again. I
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    • 793 21  -  By ZAN THOMPSON LAT-WP THREE years ago, I went into the Huntington Memorial Hospital through the emergency room, riding in a wheelchair and howling to the skies. It was one of the best things that ever happened to me. I had never been to
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    • 37 18 if t ABC Stout National Arm Wrestling Challenge Grand Finals: Gay World Stadium,7.3opm,2sth Feb. (Contestants weigh in at 6.30pm). On-the-spot Lucky Draw prizes to be given away. ADMISSION F REE Plus Pugilistic Display and Lion Dance. THERE.
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 486 19 fJLM GUID6 Synopsis: In this gem of a comedy, two men DALIT (*****16): COMEDY (C) CLEMEN I (*****51): KIDS FROM SHAO- nSre LIWAQU (*****30): COMEDY (C) Starring- Li Lianjie FUIeS ta the make u P of a Pe" 00 Synopsis: A spin-off from the successful JURONG (*****70): BODHISATTVA 122E2ZE2£2HHP Shaolin
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    • 183 20 JADE: HURRY-SEE IT NOW (*****80) 5 SHOWS:. 11 am, 1.30, 4.00, 6.30, 9.00 UPROARIOUS ISEW COMEDY HRARKXJSIY POSNG/ ANSWERNG THE ETERNAL QUESTION..* IT NATURE OR NURTURE? HEREDITY OR ENVHONMENTt HND OUT NOW! Ikketwo In) J L tf\ complete strangers... malar on? of them 'MH9 jurtwalchlhehm J AY K ROY I)
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 38 20 TODAY: TOMORROW: Low tide: 9.00 am Low tide: 9.46 am (0.5 m) (0.6 m) High tide: 3.11 pm High tide: 4.11 pm (2.6 m) (2.3 pm) Low tide: 9.24 pm Low tide: 9.56 pm (0.7 m) (1.0 m)
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    • 697 20 chao zhou opera Guangdong Chao Zhou Troupe from ir make v r appearance pore from Sunday to pm Palace The troupe will entertain a H\B^H programme H VHM W» r featuring H •r comedies, romances H f and tragedies V |f wW iKj Tickets at $50, $40 S "*'■>• and
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    • 103 20 PHOTOGRAPHS AN exhibition of Wendy Chan's black and white photographs will be on at the Bistro Toulouse-Lautrec till Feb 27. CALLIGRAPHY A CALLIGRAPHY exhibition by Mr Pan Shou, organised by the Chinese Calligraphy Society of Singapore, will be on from today to Sunday, 9 am to 5.30 pm, at National
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 321 22 leisure comics ARIES March 21 to April 19 LIBRA You're inclined to daydream September 23 to October 22 and may not accomplish as Find ways to become more efmuch as you'd like. Take time ficient on the job. Eliminate to examine inner motives. distractions. A love at first sight situation
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    • 254 22 ASSIGNMENT: TOP SECRET By Bill Barry the vacant WAS,I "smJLL op N nfe NT J RAINSOAKED TRENCH I L UF COATS MICHAEL J KSS BRAND STARES AT Wfim AjfflffiH THE RAIN THROUGH WSBIBhJ®KIM f* A V' W»s A GAPING HOLE MB §f A V I b> MM THAT LEADS TO
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  • PROPERTY SECTION
    • 849 23  -  Many 'indefinable' factors go into the calculation By ANG PENG HWA THE PRICES of private residential property may be high, but not as high as house owners and hunters think. Buyers and sellers alike are generally ignorant of market values. This was the consensus
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    • 234 23  -  By ANNIE CHIA AT MEYER Park condominium by the East Coast Parkway, you need not fight over that much-sought-after bedroom with a seaview. Each unit has been specially designed so that every bedroom and living room offers an "angular" view of the
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    • 535 24  -  $14 mto renovate International Plaza By VINCENT FONG THE OWNERS of International Plaza in Anson Road expect to spend $14 million by the end of this year on upgrading the building. But the project, billed as the largest sum to be spent on renovating
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    • 934 24 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR PROPERTY GUIDE THERE are three ways to find the right property to suit your budget and in the preferred locality. REAL ESTATE AGENTS Most real estate firms are listed in the Yellow Pages under Real Estate. If you are short of
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    • 431 28 Reuter LONDON, Wednesday WATFORD sustained their sequence of success and inflicted more misery on West Ham when they beat the London club 4-2 in the English First Division last night. Football Association (FA) Cup quarter-fina-lists Watford hit back for their first win at
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    • 453 29  -  SAFSA 2 TIONG BAHRU 0 Reports: S GULAM FITNESS, speed, determination and a bit of luck gave Singapore Armed Forces Sports Association a deserved win over de- fending champions Tiong Bahru in a thrilling National Football League Division One encounter last
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